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"The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday" "The transfer of such a large quantity of Hellfires suggests that the Trump administration was well-informed of Israel’s plans to attack...Iran" "Hellfires are laser-guided air-to-ground missiles. They would not be useful for Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, but for precision strikes" Assassinations
"Iranian state media published warnings from Iranian authorities directed at the US, UK, and France, saying that their regional military bases and naval vessels will be targeted if they intervene to stop Iranian strikes on Israel" They refer to Jordan, Gulf States, Iraq, Syria (what's left of Syria, HTS Syria), and the US bases on those territories.
As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages for a second day, senior Iranian officials have vowed to escalate attacks on US, British, and French military positions
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane.
Der mit Abstand größte Teil der Menschheit weltweit möchte in Frieden, Freiheit und Würde leben. Das ist die wesentliche Geschichte, die kaum bis gar nicht erzählt wird, u.a. weil Politik und Medien ein System erschaffen haben (und Teil davon sind), das nur von einer entgegengesetzten Erzählung lebt.
Mein Vater hat das China-Geschäft von VW mit aufgebaut. Damals waren die deutschen Autobauer Vorbild für China. Nun kehrt sich das Verhältnis um. taz.de/!6091941
Minister Carsten Schneider hat kaum umweltpolitische Erfahrung, doch soll die Meere retten. Die UN-Ozeankonferenz hat er überstanden, und jetzt? taz.de/!6091873
As top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines will be targeted next.
everyone talking about how there's now no way to distinguish between a real cop and someone there to kill you and we're just like, there's no difference at all, never has been, that's what the cops are for
The alleged Minnesota assassins is being called the "No Kings" killer, and he was appointed by Tim Walz to a prestigious position in 2019. x.com/SaltyGoat17/status/19339…
"Iran's air defense force successfully shot down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet in the western sky of the country on 14 June, Iranian state media IRNA reported" "It was the third Israeli F-35 shot down since the start of Israel's attack on Iranian military, nuclear, and civilian sites since Friday" "Iranian Army commandos reportedly captured the pilot of a downed Israeli fighter jet" Not enough evidence at this point
Another way of looking at it is that Trump truly wanted a deal, which is why he was against Israel attacking Iran before his 60-day deadline was up, but he wasn’t going to stop them afterwards.
my favorite tobaccos are aromatics! I like imparting vanilla room notes indoors or leaving behind a sweet scent that trails back to me when I am outside on a walk or smoking at a bar patio. I find it fun whenever I hear random people pick up on it and comment on the pleasant smell. I do collect a lot of rare tobacco tins but tbh I smoke cheap OTC blends like the original Captain Black more than I do my more expensive stuff.
my all time favorite blend is probably Molto Dolce from Sutliff Private Stock. I am sad that it is no longer produced by Sutliff and I only have one sealed tin left of it..
Is there a way to re-humidify a package of pipe tobacco that's gotten a little dry? I've had a pouch for almost two years, for only very occasional smoking (a habit I've mostly dropped for tobacco), and would like to re-invigorate it.
My go-to aromatic right now is MacBarren Classic loose cut. Next time I'll try searching for a tin of cake roll of them. I used to smoke Cellini (even have one cellared at the moment) but the smoke experience is meh...lots of relights and stuff. Might have been my inexperience however. For real tobacco taste I go to Capstan Navy Blue flake and recently I finally found the OG Italian pipe tobacco brand with Italian grown tobacco. Dirt cheap over the counter tobacco that you better smoke slowly but with a surprisingly pleasant smoke that gives you a real tobacco flavor reminiscent of Toscano cigars (same company so go figure).
I have a tin cellared called Hellenism, has this amazing real tobacco flavor but lovely room note. its a blend of Japanese grown tobacco I brought back from my stay in Tokyo
Don't know if Cellini is from Savinelli. I do know that there's only one brand producing pipe tobacco in Italy with Italian-grown leaves and that's Toscano.
I bought this specific one, but they're all dirt cheap (between 5 and 6 euros per pouch) but this one is less strong and more Italian grown than others (not 100% I think).
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“This is the result of Democrats and Republicans not being able to come together in this immigration reform,” the actor and former politician said. “That’s what needs to be done so that you don’t have to go and start arresting people in the first place, so we know who is in this country and who is working here, who has the temporary working permit, who has the permanent working permit.”
“Those resources could be funneled to some more effective ways of handling this immigration issue that they are saying we have,” he said. “The 15 guys waiting to get a job at 5 a.m. at the Home Depot parking lot are not the ones we need to be worrying about, but that’s who’s getting scooped up.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger can't be bought because he brought his own money. Probably the only honest politician who can get an interview.
Too bad he refused to comment directly about the ICE Gestapo, the National Guard federal takeover, and deploying US Marines against USians on our own soil.
“Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. Just weeks ago, the Greek Naval Court confirmed what survivors and civil society have long known: Greek coast guard officials should bear a full investigation in their actions and responsibility for this shipwreck, a state crime that could have been prevented.
However, too often, states like Greece and Italy criminalize survivors. For this shipwreck, nine Egyptian men, the “Pylos 9, were scapegoated, accused of smuggling and causing the tragedy. They were imprisoned for nearly a year before finally being acquitted in May 2024.
Let us not be misguided by this attempt of throwing dust in public opinion’s eyes and putting the blame elsewhere rather than on the State and its bodies’ authority to act and prevent any loss of human life. These smuggling rings that governments claim to be against would not even exist if European states opened borders not just for the privileged but to anyone that decided to build a life elsewhere, even in their territories.
As the families of Pylos victims said recently in a message to the relatives of those who died in a deadly train crash in Greece: “Let our tears become a sea of rage.” We echo that rage.
If only there was a television channel over here in the United States that had zero fucks to give like #Channel4 in the #UK, what a wonderful world this would be. Some of my favorite shows are on Channel 4. #DEIA #LGBTQ #inclusion
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Now, Jews are doing to the US what they tried to do to Germany. Currently, 89% of our Senators and Congress hold dual citizenship citizenship with Israel. He...
Well today I discovered there's a whole other sub-culture out there, kind of like the Antichrist nemesis of Retro and Vintage computer enthusiasts. They livestream and upload videos on YT of them ripping old computers apart for Gold. I actually feel sick 🤢 Absolute Monsters 😢
Toshiba Satellite Pro 320CDT (1996) * One of the best Retro Mobile platforms for DOS games, very good quality TFT screen, true Yamaha OPL 3 and Soundblaster support *
"It is clear that the Iranian regime poses a grave threat to the entire free world. There is no circumstance where Iran can be permitted to become a nuclear power."
Israel has again murdered dozens of desperate Palestinians as they queued in the hope of receiving a tiny amount of food from mercenary-run 'aid' stations set up by Israel as the only hope of food in the entire Gaza strip - and in reality as an ethnic cleansing trap. Massacres have been perpetrated outside the mercenary bases almost daily, but such is the desperation inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza by the colonisers' starvation blockade that people still come.
Occupation has cut off most internet to hide its crimes but news is still getting out Israel has again murdered dozens of innocent, desperate Palestinians as they queued in the hope of receiving a …
Let's do this refurb; a new thread 🧵 Wincor Nixdorf Beetle - Socket 370 (Pentium III era) based ePOS Computer. This project will involve a lot of cleaning, fixing the plastic shipping damage, some upgrades and changes, it's going to be fun! Let's go....
Here's the back, lots of interesting things on here: -PLINK-TFT, touchscreen Monitor connector. -4xCOM ports -24v DC output -Cashdrawer ports -LPT -USB -LAN -Multi-serial PCI card -Monitor main power connector
Here's the top cover off, showing the front damage, that'll I'll have to rebuild, won't be perfect, but I have most of the right hand side. Unless I can find a new shell (long shot). Ohh, you might have noticed too, this has no VGA video output (optional upgrade).
I'll be leaving the board and riser to properly dry out for a day or two, in the meantime I decided to see if I could service the 40x20mm fan, 'waste not want not' and all that. This thing was terrible before, after taking it apart, cleaning and greasing it, it's great! 👍
It's test time, as the bios is reset it will only post with an ISA card as default, let's see if it works and then change the post video device to PCI:
So, I found a PS/2 breakout for a mouse port, but I'll need to determine the pinout first. Secondly I think the bios has a feature where it can make a USB mouse appear to the system as a PS/2 mouse, so I may not need to, we'll see.
The IDE connectors are small, laptop sized connectors, there's a small laptop to desktop sized IDE cable. I need another to connect up a DVD drive to have some fun testing OS's, I found another cable in my stash, should do the job:
All the drivers have installed properly (some searching around was needed), decided to celebrate by testing the midi out on the Labway XWave 5000 card, I'm impressed and also happy that it works👍
There's something pretty funky about playing a game on a Shop Till/Cash Register, the forbidden beige box under the counter that I always wondered about. 🤔 A little test of Quake II 😍
Fortunately this thing is built like a Tank! A very small piece of plastic cracked off the top, which I fixed and isn't visible, no other problems. What a cool retro 15" 4:3 screen, it's really crisp and 75Hz too! 👍
I've not posted much this week, honestly I've had a bad one, mentally not great at the moment and feeling really low, but hey things will get better. Back 25 years ago this was my Friday evening: Beige box, CRT, MPEG2 decoder card, DVD-ROM and a👌movie Have a great weekend peeps
I get woken up early on a Saturday morning by a courier, excitedly I answer the door and take delivery. Open the package and instead of a small CRT TV the seller has accidentally sent me a typewriter. FFS 😂 Well, that was worth waiting a week for! 😞
IBM ThinkPad T42 with giant extended battery + USB FreeDOS Install + SBEMU + USB Logitech Trackball 🖲️ = Perfect Mobile Dos gaming platform and hours of fun👍
El supuesto asesino de los dos demócratas en USofIsrael por supuesto es blanco (ergo sigue vivo) y tiene nombre de esos compuestos de colegio de pago: Vance Luther Boelter
New Thread 🧵 A lovely, but in need of a good service: 1988 - Olivetti Prodest PC1 (80188-compatible) based computer and accompany Olivetti Prodest MM-1012 12" Monochrome CRT
"Israel does not want to build a nuclear-free zone in the region. What Israel wants is to be the sole nuclear power in the region, and therefore to be exactly what it is – namely, the largest United States military base in the world" Israel knows that Iran does not have or intend to have nukes. So what's Iran guilty of? "it has an ambition to be a sovereign state that remains committed to justice for the Palestinians"
On June 14, 1928, Argentinian revolutionary, Commander of the Cuban Revolution and tireless internationalist, Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was born.
Guevara dedicated his life to fighting imperialism and colonialism on different continents. The revolutionary icon was firm in his defense of the Palestinian people.
Meta’s CEO is personally recruiting top AI talent to reboot Llama and build a new “superintelligence” lab, offering massive pay and direct access to him. His $14.3 billion hire of Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is the most expensive in tech history.
#Ostmoderne – nicht nur gebaut, sondern auch geträumt
Die Ausstellung "Pläne und Träume – Gezeichnet in der DDR" (Tchoban Foundation, Berlin) zeigt, was nie gebaut wurde – und gerade darin liegt die Kraft:
Rund 140 Entwürfe, oft fern der Norm, entziehen sich dem technisierten Baualltag der DDR.
Sie sind visuelle Fluchten, stille Kritiken – und zugleich Gegenbilder zu den bekannten Betonrealitäten im Plattenbau.
Was hier zu sehen ist, ist Ostmoderne jenseits des politischen Auftrags: zart, utopisch, persönlich. Architektur als gezeichneter Widerspruch.
TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten sind zusammen mit thomas betonbauteile und GROHE Partner der Ausstellung „Pläne und Träume. Gezeichnet in der DDR“, die am 23.05.2025 im Museum für Architekturzeichnung in Berlin eröffnet wird.
#Iran #IsraelTerroristState #Mossad @palestine "Mossad played a key role in the opening strikes...the spy agency set up a covert drone base near the Iranian capital Tehran, and smuggled precision weapons systems into the Islamic Republic in preparation for the large-scale operation" "The drone launcher found somewhere in Iran...was concealed in the back of a small truck" Same method used in Ukraine to attack deep inside Russia. It is known that Israel is arming Ukraine southfront.press/here-are-the-…
This is one of the articles talking about Israel arming Ukraine. I know many of you side with Ukraine and I'm not getting into that discussion. This is what this article says. Many geopolitical analysts support this view. "Tel Aviv not only politically supports Kiev but also directly participates in the military effort against Russia" It's a matter of NATO/Western hegemony
🚨Du matériel militaire en provenance de suède destiné à Israël en transit par l’aéroport de Paris Charles-de-Gaulle : le syndicat Sud Aérien riposte !/
Jeudi 12 juin, une cargaison de matériel militaire destinée au marchand d’armes israélien Elbit Systems est partie de Malmö en Suède en direction de l’aéroport de Paris-CDG, d’où il doit décoller samedi 14 juin à destination de l’aéroport de Tel-Aviv. Il s’agit d’un chargement de 320kg d’acier destiné à construire des véhicules blindés. Le syndicat SUD Aérien a réagi à cette révélation en appelant les travailleur·ses à refuser de charger le matériel.
"Nous sommes des travailleurs et travailleuses du transport, pas des rouages de l'industrie de guerre !"
➡️Partout, la mobilisation des travailleur·ses contre le commerce des armes avec Israël prend de l'ampleur ! Vive la solidarité internationale 💥
صبح دیروز با خبر شوکهکنندهٔ جنگ بیدار شدیم. جنگ وحشتناک به ما هم رسید و به مجموعهٔ تنشهای روزانهٔ ما زیرمجموعهٔ جنگ هم اضافه شد. مدتیست که به سختی کتاب «جنگ چهرهٔ زنانه ندارد» را میخوانم. کتابی که زندگی و نبرد زنان روسیه در جنگ جهانی دوم را از زبان بازماندگان روایت میکند. تقریباً تمام این روایات برای هر کسی بسیار بیرحمانه است. شرایطی بسیار شبیه به همین وضعیت ما، دولت توتالیتر در برابر هیولای نازی.
حجم اطلاعات و اخباری که منتشر میشود بسیار زیاد است و تحلیل این موارد هم به هیچ عنوان ساده نیست. متن پیش رو صرفاً نکاتیست که به خاطر من و صفورا رسید.
نگاه دوقطبی
جهان را در دوگانهٔ سیاه و سفید، خیر و شر، خوب و بد، ظالم و مظلوم و دوقطبی دیدن، یکی از مهلکترین خطاهای شناختی انسان است. افرادی (مثل من) که با اسرائیل و جمهوری اسلامی مخالفت میکنند اغلب از هر دو طرف، یعنی طرفداران اسرائیل و جماعت ارزشی مورد هجوم قرار میگیرند. همگی در دوگانهٔ جمهوری اسلامی/اسرائیل خیر/شر گیر افتادهاند. اکنون این جنگ هم پهنهٔ نبرد خیر و شر است.
تهدید جهان: ایران یا اسرائیل؟
جمهوری اسلامی در داخل کشور و برای مردم خودش شر و ظالم است. این کاملاً درست است؛ اما در مقایسه با رژیم اسرائیل که هفتاد سال مشغول نسلکشی، جنایت، حمله به همسایهگان و ترویج نژادپرستی و فاشیسم است. شکی نیست که اسرائیل هیچ تفاوت ماهوی با آلمان نازی ندارد.
قیام مجدد فاشیسم از هر سمت و سویی
اسرائیل و همدستانش به هر انتقادی برچسب یهودستیزی میزنند. این انتقادها ابداً یهودستیزی نیست و خودشان هم به خوبی میدانند. کسی نباید با نژاد یهود یا عرب مشکلی داشته باشد. اسرائیل از بدو تولد نژادگرا و فاشیست بوده و اصلاً براساس یک ایدهٔ نژادی تأسیس شده ایست. بسیاری در اسرائیل خود را قوم برگزیده میدانند. ایرانی و عرب برای «قوم برگزیده» تنها جانوانی هستند که در صورت لزوم خونشان مباح و جانشان حلال است.
سعی میکنم صدای مخالف را حذف نکنم؛ اما به محض دیدن محتوای حمایت از نازیسم فوراً بلاک کردم. بله، بعد از شروع جنگ تعداد زیادی از آشنایان را دیدم که مجیز هیتلر را میگفتند و این جملهٔ منتسب به او را پخش میکردند که میگفت: «همهٔ یهودیان را نکشتم تا بدانید چه جانوارنی هستند.» این هم خجالتآور و هیجانی است و هم از لحاظ تبلیغاتی میتواند تبعات بسیار سنگینی داشته باشد.
در انتظار منجی
عدهای هورا میکشند که اسرائیل آمده تا ما را نجات دهد و آزادیمان را تقدیممان کند. مغز ایرانشهری نمیپذیرد که اسرائیل به نوادگان کورش حمله کند. اکنون وقت آن رسیده که لطف کورش در دو هزار و پانصد سال پیش را جبران کنند. اغلب بدون ذرهای هزینه توقع دارند کسی بیاید و نجاتشان دهد. اسرائیل، امام زمانِ راست برانداز ایرانی است.
رضا پهلوی هم هرگز در اندازهای نیست که بتواند برای ایرانیان ذرهای مفید باشد. این مرد حقیر دستبوس نتانیاهوست و از طرفی بارها برای رژیم جمهوری اسلامی بازی کرد. بیعرضهای که هیچ دستاوردی جز تخریب خیزش زن، زندگی، آزادی و حمایت از نابودی ایران به دست دشمن خارجی نداشته و نخواهد داشت.
از طرفی هم سالهاست که عدهٔ دیگری مهدی گویان فقط در انتظارند تا کسی نجاتشان دهد.
خیانت در تاریخ ایران
از زمان حملهٔ اسکندر تا مرگ یزدگرد سوم به دست پیرمرد آسیاببان این کشور بارها با خیانت خائنان به خاک نشسته. اکنون هم بسیارند کسانی که هواخواه اسکندر و خالد بن ولید معاصرند. هیچکس جز ما نمیتواند ما را نجات بدهد. هیچکس نمیخواهد.
نتانیاهو از مردم ایران درخواست خیزش دارد. دفعهٔ قبل که از شر حاکم داخلی به دشمن پناه بردیم، گویا ماجرای شهر انبار در زمان حملهٔ اعراب بود. بعد از هزار و چهارصد سال هنوز تاوان میدهیم.
ریشهٔ خیانتهای امروز چیست؟ چرا اسرائیل در دل ایران اینقدر هواخواه و مرید دارد؟ حکومتی که مردمش را برنجاند و از دست بدهد مقصر اصلی است.
رسانهها و پروپاگاندا
اکنون بازار اخبار جعلی داغ است. بهتر است خورهٔ خبر نباشیم و با دیدن سوتیهای منابع خبری آنها را دنبال نکنیم.
بسیار دقت کنید که پروپاگاندا در دست کیست. فاشیسم منابع مالی زیادی دارد و برای پروپاگاندا و رسانه هم بسیار خوب خرج میکند.
منابع خبریتان رو گستردهتر کنید. جلوی هیجان را بگیرید.
پاکستان و بازیگران خلیج فارس
شنیدم که پاکستان (دارای بمب اتم) از ایران پشتیبانی کرده و این میتواند معادلات را تغییر اساسی بدهد. از طرفی کشورهای حاشیهٔ خلیج فارس هم به شدت از تنش در منطقه دوری میکنند.
مردم بیگناه هزینه میدهند. همین چند ساعت پیش به پالایشگاهها حمله کردند. زیرساختها را میزنند و به مردم عادی رحمی ندارند.
از اهریمن جنگ خارجی، نه دموکراسی متولد میشود و نه توسعه! هیچ کشوری در اثر جنگ خارجی و حملات بیگانگان، آزاد و آباد نشده و به استقلال واقعی دست نیافته همه گلایه های به حق سر جای خود… به هیچ بهانه ای راضی نشويد به ایرانمان ضربه بزنند اصلاحاتی که از داخل ملت ریشه نگرفته باشد و با همت آنها به ثمر ننشیند ارزش و پایداری ندارد
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Activation of Iranian air defense systems in Tehran, Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, and other areas in Iran.
Oil and gas production facilities are being targeted
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #Iran #BreakingNews #Breaking
hm... pero el voz no esta hablando Farsi. pero, muchas gentes en el sur del pais hablan arabi. @GM7077 the voice at the 7 second mark... is that arabic?
@GM7077 yeah it could be. the last 30 hours has been a lot of sifting through media and trying to decide whats real and what isnt. but as far as im seeing the iranian air defense systems are doing very well. if they weren't caught off guard by insiders when this all started, they wouldt have been hit so bad. iron dome on the other hand seems like a fucking joke.
@GM7077 yeah i think there are a lot of bull shit videos going around. someone else showed a fire "in iran" where the people were talking hindi or punjabi.
Depuis Téhéran, une militante anarchiste témoigne des frappes israéliennes, du chaos quotidien, et du rôle que tentent de jouer les anarchistes entre guerre, répression et survie. Un récit poignant que j'ai traduit des larmes dans les yeux.
"We are now in the years 2025 and people are still shilling the #democrats unconditionally. At this stage, we need to start referring to any presently existing #BlueMAGA adherents by what they actually are: death cultists.
Many of them tried to “both sides” the #Gaza “ #war” when it started. Many of them uncritically bought into the #racist #colonizer lies being told to them by the #media, then tried to downplay the death toll & catastrophic damage inflicted by the #IDF, going as far as outright #Genocide denial, ...
... only acknowledging that it was what it was when the evidence piled up to such a colossal degree tland was laid so plainly bare before them that they could no longer deny or cast doubt on what was going on (and still they condemn #Hamas).
Now all of the sudden they’re pretending to care. Why? Because now Orange Man is doing it and is being more vocally brazen about it. The level of disrespect to the #Palestinian people by these fucks is so absurd that it’s migraine inducing. All of the sudden they care. ...
Iranians record IRGC members as they secretly flee Iran at Mehraban airport.
The woman making the video can be heard saying “Bi Sharaf (immoral degenerate), look at how they flee” in Farsi. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Iran #Israel
En según qué contextos, sirve solo para llamar la atención sobre temas totalmente ajenos. Cosa que nunca me parecerá bien. Es como poner una mujer semidesnuda para vender una marca de brandy.
Larry C. Johnson spot on: "In the world of the so-called international rules-based order, Israel is guilty of an unprovoked attack and Iran, in accordance with Chapter VII, Article 51 of the UN Charter, is retaliating appropriately. Yet, the West is condemning Iran and gaslighting the public regarding Israel’s claim that this was an act of self-defense. Bollocks!"
So they didn't caught the murderer of two democrats lawmakers in US Yet. So my guess: the suspect is a white killer and they will catch him alive. Thanks for coming to my True Crime analysis.
»#Rafah Is Gone. Razed to the Ground. And It's Not the Only City Wiped Out by the Israeli Army.
On the eve of the war, the Rafah metropolitan area in #Gaza had a population of 275,000. #Jabalya had 65,000 residents. #BeitLahia had 108,000. Today, these cities are little more than ruins. The scale of destruction wrought by #Israel stands out even among the most extreme wartime cases in modern history. « #Genocide #WarCrimes haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)
On the eve of the war, the Rafah metropolitan area in Gaza had a population of 275,000. Jabalya refugee camp had 56,000 residents. Beit Lahia had 108,000. Today, those are little more than ruins.
»"In Jabalya, there is no longer a house, a tree, or a single human being," a physician from the northern Gaza Strip who calls himself Dr. Ezzideen wrote on X last December. "It has become a vast wasteland, its residents forcibly displaced, its homes obliterated, its animals killed, and even its trees cut down and left to wither. This image will stand as a testament to one of the darkest and most harrowing periods in history."«
»In 10/23, a satellite passed over Rafah and photographed the city. The image showed a large city, a dense mosaic of buildings, solar panels, domes of mosques, roads, public squares, farmland and orchards.
[Today:] Hardly anything remains. The current image shows a two-dimensional gray surface strewn with rubble. The overwhelming majority of the buildings have been destroyed and leveled. The roads are plowed up. The many greenhouses and orchards have disappeared as though they never existed.«
»At the war's start, Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu didn't rule out Israel using an atomic bomb. Effectively, the proportion of structures that have been eradicated in Rafah and in Jabalya refugee camp is higher than what was destroyed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.«
»Indeed, the destruction in Rafah also stands out in comparison with other extreme cases in modern history. It is more widespread and methodical than the damage imposed on Aleppo, Mosul, Sarajevo and Kabul. The extent of devastation recalls the heavy damage sustained by the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in 2022-2023, though the population of that city was one-quarter that of Rafah.«
»On the eve of the war, the Rafah metropolitan area had a population of 275,000, like that of Haifa. There were 56,000 people living in Jabalya camp, similar to Yavneh. Beit Lahia had 108,000 residents, like Herzliya, and Beit Hanoun had 62,000, like Givatayim. Almost 30,000 people, equivalent to Arad, lived in Abasan al-Kabira, a suburb of Khan Yunis that no longer exists. An adjacent suburb, Bani Suheila, had a population of 46,000, like Carmiel.
»In addition to residential structures, the IDF has destroyed hospitals, infrastructure facilities, factories, mosques, churches, markets and commercial centers. The IDF has also devastated 2,300 educational structures of all kinds, and today 501 of the 564 schools in the Strip require rebuilding or extensive repair.«
»Of the roads, 81 percent have been wrecked or damaged. A large part of the electrical infrastructure has been demolished, along with water and sewage lines, agricultural structures, and animal pens, chicken coops and fishing areas. According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, the number of egg-laying hens has decreased by 99 percent since 2023, the number of cattle by 94 percent, and the quantity of fish being caught has fallen by 93 percent.«
»In the meantime, more than a million people are huddling in the immense tent cities that have sprung up in the Muwasi area on the coast, and in the western section of Gaza City.«
»Gazans streamed into the already densely crowded area, to the point where tents are now being erected on the Gaza City's piers, in garbage dumps and on the rubble.«
»The refugees are living without sewage facilities, without running water, without electricity, and have no way to cook the little aid they receive. And as summer begins, they are now also under assault by mosquitoes. And hunger looms in every corner.«
»Fantasies of eliminating the Strip are omnipresent in Israel. During 20 months of war, there have been tens of thousands of calls in social media to flatten, annihilate and eradicate the Gaza Strip. Members of the security cabinet, MKs and influential journalists repeatedly demand obliteration.«
»The IDFs obliteration of the Strip can be divided into 5 waves. The first wave took place immediately after Oct7 & was the work of the air force. During the war's first week, the airforce dropped 6,000 bombs in a campaign compared to which the US militarys assault on ISIS in 2017 pales.«
»"I can't get to sleep at night if I haven't seen houses collapsing in Gaza," Ch14's Shimon Riklin said Dec23. "What can I do – more, more, more, more houses, more towers, so they have no place to return to."«
»The second wave of destruction was unleashed at the beginning of 2024, when the IDF carried out an operation to create a one-kilometer-wide buffer zone along the Strip's borders with Israel. Thousands of structures were destroyed then, concurrent with the establishment of the Netzarim Corridor (the areas that were leveled alone constitute more than 10 percent of the Strip's area). At this stage, bulldozers and explosives replaced the air force as the primary instruments of destruction.«
»"The truly surprising thing is the speed with which it all became natural and logical," reservist Yuval Katef wrote of his service in the Netzarim Corridor. "After a few hours, you find that you're trying to force yourself to be impressed by the dimensions of the destruction, and to come out with lines like, 'This is really crazy!,' but the truth is that you get used to it quite quickly. It becomes banal."«
»The third stage in the flattening of the Strip started about a year ago, with the assault on Rafah, at the far south. At that time, the IDF started to broaden and entrench the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. At this stage the army developed a new and efficient method of destruction: unmanned armored personnel carriers dispatched on "kamikaze" missions.«
»The fourth stage, toward the end of last year, was the devastation the IDF inflicted on the cities of the northern Strip: Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun & Jabalya refugee camp. This chapter concluded at the end of Dec. when Dr. Abu Safiya, director of KamalAdwanHospital in Beit Lahia, turned himself in to the IDF. The images of Abu Safiya walking toward the soldiers against an apocalyptic backdrop made a deep impression internationally, & made it clear that the IDF was leaving behind heaps of rubble.«
»On March 18, Israel violated the cease-fire with a night attack that took the lives of about 300 women and children, and two months later the IDF launched Operation Gideon's Chariots. Under a new chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, the sowing of destruction became explicit policy, and was carried out more exhaustively. At this stage, which is still ongoing, private contractors are being used, and paid according to the number of structures they raze.«
»We will operate in additional areas and we will destroy all the infrastructure, above & below the ground" Zamir declared. Amit Segal: "for the first time, they are talking about destroying all the infrastructure above the ground." Half a year earlier, following a visit to Jabalya, Segal: "Photographs cannot describe the dimensions of the destruction, from horizon to horizon. In the north of the Strip what remain are mainly slabs of concrete, sand, vast piles of garbage & packs of hungry dogs."«
»Netanyahu speaks openly about this: We will push the Gazans south, we will find countries that are willing to take them in, and in the end the majority will agree to leave "of their own volition." "We are destroying more and more houses," the prime minister told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last month, according to a report in Maariv. "They will have nowhere to return to."«
»The starting gun was fired on February 4, when U.S. President Donald Trump stated in a press conference that, "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip… We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons."
From that moment the fantasy became a working plan. «
»This is how Finance Minister and security cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich put it: "No more raids. We conquer and stay, until the annihilation of Hamas. On the way, we destroy what still remains of the Strip. The IDF is moving population from the areas of combat and is not leaving a single stone unturned. The population will come to the south of the Strip, and from there, with God's help, to third countries. This is a change in the course of history, no less. That's the main thing."«
»One reason that some legal experts and historians believe that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, is the vast scale of destruction. They include the Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov, the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
Bartov maintains that, "this is not a war, that is a false representation."
All the signs, he says, show that Israel is acting "to destroy completely Palestinian existence in Gaza and to render the Strip uninhabitable."«
»According to Bartov, "If there is deliberate and systematic destruction of hospitals, educational institutions, cultural institutions, religious centers and infrastructure, one can infer from this that these structures are not being targeted because Hamas personnel were hiding in them, but because they want to prevent a group from existing as a group."«
»Bartov adds, "It's difficult to find points of comparison for the massive destruction the IDF is wreaking. You have to go back to the destroyed cities of World War II. The dimensions here are inconceivable. Whether the IDF generals understand it or not, the goal is to 'disappear' Palestinian society and its culture and to establish something else in Gaza, with no memory of what was there before."«
»The historian Dotan Halevy, who has written extensively about the history of Gaza, views the destruction as a continuation of the 1948 Nakba. "The Gaza Strip," he notes, "is the only region along the coastal plain that has preserved a continuous history. Its obliteration now is destroying historical remnants from a period of hundreds of years."
The situation of Gaza is singular, Halevy points out, because Israel is leveling it without its residents «
»"For three decades, Gaza has been a closed enclave, in which its people are imprisoned. In contrast to German cities in World War II, or to Aleppo in Syria, it's not possible to simply pick up and look for a haven. The consequence is a compressed annihilation experience from which there is no way to escape. The inhabitants of Gaza are locked into the noise of the bombing and are breathing the dust of the rubble."«
The political designation “the left” originated during the French Revolution in 1789. In the National Assembly, those who opposed the king’s veto and supported change sat on the l…
In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.
For decades, British Petroleum (then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) had extracted Iran’s wealth, leaving the Iranian people with little to show for it. Mossadegh’s move was a bid for sovereignty, dignity, and the right of a nation to control its own resources. The response from the so-called “free world” was swift and brutal: a joint CIA-MI6 operation, code-named Operation Ajax, orchestrated a coup to overthrow Mossadegh, using black propaganda, bribed politicians, manufactured riots, (2/11)
and false flag attacks to create chaos and justify intervention. Hundreds died in the streets of Tehran as the Shah—an autocratic monarch—was reinstalled with #American and British backing.
This single act of imperial violence shattered Iran’s democracy and set the stage for everything that followed: decades of dictatorship under the authoritarian Shah, the rise of the secret police (trained and armed by the CIA), the deepening of anti-Western sentiment, and ultimately the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s not a stretch to say that the roots of today’s tensions, the cycles of violence, and the specter of war all trace back to this original sin. The aftershocks of that coup are (4/11)
still being felt, not only in Iran, but across the entire Middle East.
Yet, in the American imagination, #history often starts with the hostage crisis, or with the latest missile launch, or with the rhetoric of “rogue states.” We’re taught to see Iran as an irrational enemy, a threat to “our” interests, never as a nation whose modern history was violently derailed by foreign powers seeking oil and geopolitical dominance. The coup became a blueprint for U.S. and British interventions (5/11)
around the world, fueling a legacy of distrust, blowback, and endless war.
This is not ancient #history. The U.S. government only formally admitted its role in the coup in 2013, after decades of denial and the destruction of key documents. The British government’s involvement was only acknowledged even more recently. The details are staggering: CIA operatives posing as communists bombing mosques to stir up religious opposition, paying mobsters to riot in the streets, and bribing editors (6/11)
to print fake news-long before “fake news” became a household phrase.
So when Americans beat the drums of war with Iran, or wonder aloud “why do they hate us?”, we have to reckon with the fact that the U.S. and U.K. destroyed Iran’s best chance at democracy for the sake of oil profits and imperial power.
Imagine if a foreign power overthrew your #government, installed a dictator, and then lectured you for decades about freedom and democracy. Imagine if, every time you tried to chart your own course, you were met with sanctions, threats, and military intervention.
The story of Iran is not unique. It’s a microcosm of the broader pattern of Western interventionism: democracy is celebrated only when it aligns with the interests of empire. When democracy threatens those interests—when a nation dares to control its own resources, or refuses to play by the rules of the global order—it is crushed, and the consequences are borne by ordinary people for generations.
This is not about excusing the crimes or authoritarianism of the Iranian regime. It’s about understanding the context that gave rise to it, and the role that Western powers played in destroying the possibility of a different, more peaceful future. It’s about recognizing that the seeds of today’s conflicts were planted by yesterday’s coups, sanctions, and covert operations.
If we truly want peace, if we want to avoid another catastrophic war, the first step is #honesty. We have to confront our own history, acknowledge the violence committed in our name, and reject the amnesia that allows us to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Until we do, every new crisis will be haunted by the ghosts of 1953—and the world will continue to pay the price for our refusal to learn from the past.
In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized...
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